Monthly Archives: March 2018

March 2018 Palo Alto (pronounced by Americans doing European authenticity PAW-law AWL-tow) is an upscale town that a lot of older locals would probably say has been ruined by the Silicon Valley diaspora. Many of the houses are older palatial-latino … Continue reading →

Szabo, Magda. The Door. New York Review of Books, New York. In Hungarian 1987. Translation by Len Rix 2005. F;2/18. Recommended by a friend, this strange tale moved but also perplexed me. It’s hard to tell in a translation what … Continue reading →